White Bean Mushroom Bacon Soup {gluten free}

White Bean Mushroom Bacon Soup is creamy, spicy, rustic soup that is healthy, gluten free and loaded with fiber and protein. Simple and quick to prepare with a robust flavor that is so satisfying on a cold day. Perfect alone or a first course during the holidays.

I bet you know somebody like this. They’re that person who can remember the good and the bad of each and every event that has happened in their life, to the inth detail!

They’re that friend who always remembers and retells silly stories in exact detail from years ago over and over… and over. They tell the story to a group of friends and look at you and say you remember that don’t you?

I typically smile and say yes, but really most of the time…no I don’t. And I’m okay with that. I’m beginning to believe that in some ways not remembering everything in exacting detail is okay.

How could having a crappy memory of all those silly details make me feel lucky? Because I think it gives me freedom to not get stuck in the past so I live in the present.

I don’t dwell on the bad stuff, I work through it and then I put it behind me. What is done is done, I can’t change it so why dwell on it. I try to learn from it and move on. I think that is why I don’t remember a lot of the little details of the past. Really they don’t matter the bigger memories matter, how I felt, who I was with, and what I learned.

This makes me different from that person that lives their life and validates their worth on what they were, not how they are. Because they never move into the present because they can’t get past the bad to realize the good.

Don’t get me wrong I remember the important things, the things that really matter. Not just the good, but the sad and bad memories as well. But the majority of the petty, emotional, bad memories? Well, they tend to roll off my shoulders. I just simply am not going to waste the energy remembering that time somebody gave me that glare or said something hurtful, because I can’t move forward if I spend all my time stuck in the past.

With the holidays ahead of us, we should all look to our future and forgive and forget the past. As my good friend Dee always says, “pray for those that hurt you, not only because they need it, but so do you.”

This White Bean Mushroom soup is a great way to celebrate the present, the holidays and the New Year. It is a simple, wholesome, delicious soup that is filled with fiber, protein.

Great with a salad for a vegetarian dinner, or a first course on Christmas or New Years. I hope you give it a try and if you do snap a photo and share it with me on instagram @ahealthylifeforme or twitter @AHLFM.

First off, GORGEOUS soup! Totally makes me think of my sister, who, in fact, is kind of like one of those people you mentioned! We were just talking about it last night (except she has the greatest memory of what people say to her about themselves and she can remember them months, or even years, later.)

I love mushroom soup ! and every time I have had white bean soup I have wanted so badly to enjoy it but it seems bland but I know for a fact you adding bacon would not be the case. I am sooo making a batch of this soon.